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PlayStation sales up 27% year-on-year during Q1
Software and hardware sales are both on the rise, with a further 3.3 million PS5 units shifted this quarter
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Microsoft's concerning conflict minerals disclosure reflects industry-wide slippage
Our annual report finds industry efforts to avoid funding human rights abuses worsening almost across the board
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PlayStation mobile head departs
Ex-Apple Arcade head of content Nicola Sebastiani was at Sony for less than two years
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PlayStation confident in PS Plus strategy as it readies PS5 game streaming
Head of subscriptions Nick Maguire tells us releasing first-party games outside the service first "will continue to be our strategy moving forward"
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"Microsoft had already loaded Sony's gun" | 10 Years Ago This Month
Xbox's strong lineup of next-gen games at E3 2013 was no match for Sony promising the same old, same old
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Sony CEO: Cloud gaming's "technical difficulties are high"
But Kenichiro Yoshida says PlayStation "wants to take on those challenges"
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The law is whatever Nintendo says it is | This Week in Business
Why is the Switch maker keeping its emulation clampdown out of the courts? We speak to the lawyer who repped Bleem against PlayStation for insight
Opinion
Sony’s Project Q offers far more Qs than As | Opinion
Unless PlayStation's new device has very aggressive pricing, it’s tricky to see what problem it’s solving
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Spider-Man 2, Project Q handheld headline PlayStation Showcase
Sony reveals a raft of new PS5 titles including Bungie's new Marathon and the debut offerings from acquisitions Haven Studios and Firewalk Studios
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PSVR 2 sold just shy of 600,000 units in six weeks
PlayStation to invest more in new IP by FY25, strategy meeting report also shows
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PlayStation Showcase to unveil Sony's future line-up next week
Hour-long broadcast will feature PS5 and PSVR 2 games from first and third-party studios
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Report - Sony fails to appeal Austrian loot box verdict
PlayStation obligated to refund some FIFA Ultimate Team packs after ruling that they constitute illegal gambling becomes final
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Sony shutting down PixelOpus
Studio behind Concrete Genie and Entwined set to close its doors early next month
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PlayStation: Our live-service games will target different genres, release schedules and audiences
We talk to PlayStation, Firewalk and ProbablyMonsters on Sony’s latest live-service studio acquisition
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Sony aims to sell 25m PS5 units by April 2024
Platform holder says this will set a new record for PlayStation console sales within a financial year
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PS5 shipped 19m units in FY2022, games revenues up 33% to $26.5bn
Sony console ends year with record quarter for hardware sales
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Could Sony return to the handheld market? | Opinion
The company has always seen PlayStation systems as part of a hardware ecosystem – but the business case for adding a new handheld to the family does not seem promising
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Sony launches accessibility tags on PS5 | News-in-brief
Over 50 tags will be available worldwide this week on the PlayStation Store on PS5
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Shuhei Yoshida on his BAFTA, breaking the rules, and opening PlayStation to more indies
We speak to PlayStation’s biggest indie champion about the challenges smaller studios face today
Opinion
As supply chain issues subside, the cold console war heats up | Opinion
For two years, supply issues have dampened competition between Microsoft and Sony – but now both sides will be out to prove superiority
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Austrian court rules that FIFA loot boxes violate gambling laws
But Sony still able to appeal after being ordered to refund PlayStation users who sued over Ultimate Team
Opinion
Will we see mid-generation console refreshes again? | This Week in Business
At this point in the last console cycle, Microsoft and Sony were getting ready to announce PS4 Pro and Xbox One X; we consider why they would (and wouldn't) do it again now
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Sony's third-party plan to make PlayStation the best place to play
Shawne Benson lays out SIE's third-party portfolio strategy and how it changes between console, VR, and PC
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Why Microsoft's claim that it has 20% market share in Europe vs PlayStation's 80% was accurate
There was a reason the company discounted Nintendo